Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds

Atlantis Otherwise

Elisa Rizo, Madeleine M. Henry

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9798216301448
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical & Comparative Linguistics
• Index: Literature

Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric views. Consequently, this book addresses the silencing of the African Diaspora within the official discourses of Latin America and Hispanic Africa, as well as the limitations that linguistic and geographic boundaries have imposed upon scholarship.

The contributors address questions related to the categories of race and cultural identity by analyzing a diverse body of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Hispanic receptions of classical literature and its imaginaries. Literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese written in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea provide the opportunity for a transnational and trans-linguistic examination of the use of classical tropes and themes in twentieth-century drama, fiction, folklore studies, and narrative.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Atlantis Otherwise
• Chapter One. From Cultural Appropriation to Historical Emendation: Two Case Studies of Receptions of the Classical Tradition in Brazil
• Chapter Two. Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race, and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play
• Chapter Three. Decolonizing Greek Theatre: Black Experimental Theatre
• Chapter Four. Changó el Gran Putas: A Drama of Memory
• Chapter Five. Resurrection of the Dead: Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Caronte Liberado
• Chapter Six. Glocalizing Democracy through a Reception of the Classics in Equatorial Guinean Theatre: The Case of Morgades’s Antígona
• Index
• About the Contributors